Noah's Ark? This one is a long one.?

Question

Raz wrote:
ok, one we haven't done in a while, I thought I would go through andlist everything that seems off and unreasonable or illogical

ok first off the ark itself and the specifications of loading it

--the ark was to be built as such; 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high, which would be a volume of 2, 531, 250 ft, built all out of wood and as far as we know, done by himself...a 600 yr old man, or least with the help of his two sons who would have been 100 byt this point. (not to mention the triple decks, which would include more wood and pitch to seal it with)

--also he was to store two of every kind of animal, at least in chapter 6, and store food of every kind of all over the world since the world was going to be destroyed, chapter 7 it gets expanded to 2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean animal, and 7 of every kind of bird.........that is a lot to be carrying around and a lot of weight.....also add the fact you had about 10 people on board, noah, his sons and all the wives of each

--you have the fact that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights all over the earth, and then the water stayed for a 150 days....so the whole thing took 6 months


ok there are the facts.......now not to mention the improbablity of something liek the ark ever being made since nothing of its proportions was seen until almost 6000 years later, or the amount of animals on board this ark would not have been able to fit inside cponsidering how many animal kinds we had about 6000 years ago. We have the food supply, which I hardly see lasting for 6 months even to stay edible, or to sustain all that were on the ark. Also, when it was all over raining, Noah started sending out a dove to find proof of land, which was a fig leaf. Now how a fig tree lasted underwater for 6 months and did not die is beyond me. Also you have to have food, which if they had any it would be extremely low and all the plant life would not have survived being drowned for 6 months to give food. Also the water that had been so much extra is missing, we never found it.

Answer 1

http://www.kjvbible.org/greenland_ice_sheet.html

Answer 2

-why couldn't god just magically save the animals, or recreate them. Why the awkward complication of a flood?

-the first thing they do when they land, is kill the birds....lol. oops, weren't they supposed to be saving them (xians will say thats why they took the extra 7 in ch 7....bwa ha ha)

-The Grand Canyon was caused by the flood...but this supposed worldwide flood, caused only one little canyon in the middle of America? I don't think so.

-the feed alone would fill the Ark. I've heard xians say that god magically stopped their need to eat or drink....go back to my first point for this circular reasoning.

-what about the dinosaurs? Oh yeah...they just took babies or eggs...of course the bible doesn't actually SAY that anywhere.

-basically any logical objection you bring to the ark story....xians will counter with the fall back "god provided a miracle, though noboby thought to write that part down" defense, and fail to explain why god didn't just miracle the whole damn thing ....why not just snap his god fingers and destroy all mankind, and all but 2 ( or 2+7) animals? I'm guessing they will mention "free will"...as if that explains something.

The people who we now call the Israelites combined 2 different flood stories they had borrowed from the Assyrians (who said that a flood occured in the 10th generation of man) and the Egyptians (who said that first there was water and the earth arose out of it, and had many religious festivals related to the annual flooding of the Nile.) Most of the stories in Genesis were based on religious myths of Egypt, but they dropped the polytheism, and turnd some of the gods into mortal men....ancestors of the "chosen people" In fact several ancient civilizations that predated Israel had flood myths, these 2 are the most commonly cited.

One of the most intriguing theories is that the Israelites were actually former Egyptians, who followed pharoah Akenatan, and his bizarre (to the other Egyptians) monotheistic worship of Ra the sun-god. He ruled for less than 25 years, and all references to him were destroyed by the next pharoh. This banished group of Egyptians wandered into the desert and were then influenced by semitic nomad tribes.

Answer 3

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Gen 8:13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. Gen 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. Gen 8:15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying, Gen 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Noah got on the arc at the age of 600 years old on the 17th day of the second month. He got off the ark at the age of 601 years old on the 27 day of the second month. They were on the ark for 1 year and 10 days.

Answer 4

And then of course there is the fact of engineering that a wooden vessel can only be of a certain size before the flexibility and fragility of the wood crumples under its own weight. That's why Spanish Galleons never got any bigger than they did: Any larger and they would have broken in half. It wasn't until iron and steel came along that we could make sea vessels larger.

Answer 5

The combined weight of the bio-mass aboard would have kept the Ark steady on the sea floor as the waters rose around them and drowned them.

Answer 6

Why is that so hard to "take in"-God is Omniescience-Psalms 33:13 "sees all" knows all, cannot be taught, He is Omnipresent: 1 King 8:27- says in essence that nothing/no one contains Him-Jeremiah.23:24-He fills heaven and earth"-He created the universe, including YOU-from an egg and sperm the human eye cannot see-nothing is impossible with Him- Luke 1:37-because He is Omnipotent-Jeremiah 32:17 'nothing is to hard for Him. Either you believe Him or you don't-one guess which applies to you?

Answer 7

It's a story. The message of the story is what makes it valuable, not it's being factual. Not being factual does not invalidate the religion as a way to behave or understand your role in the universe.

Answer 8

So what's your question??? I thought this was Yahoo Answers not Yahoo make a stupid statement about something you have no clue about or authority to comment on...

Answer 9

Metaphorical story.

Answer 10

And he started making the Ark; and every time the chiefs of his people passed by him, they mocked at him. He said, 'If now you mock at us, the time is coming when we shall mock at you even just as you mock now.

Answer 11

it wasn't raining all over earth otherwise we wont be here, it was raining in his village, sons went there in the ship either